{"57076":{"#nid":"57076","#data":{"type":"news","title":"This Is Your Grid on Brains","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EManaging power networks in the future may involve a little more brain power than it does today, if researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology succeed in a new project that involves literally tapping brain cells grown on networks of electrodes.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Missouri S\u0026amp;T group, working with researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology, plans to use the brain power to develop a new method for tracking and managing the constantly changing levels of power supply and demand.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELed by Dr. Ganesh Kumar Venayagamoorthy, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Missouri S\u0026amp;T, the researchers will use living neural networks composed of thousands of brain cells from laboratory rats to control simulated power grids in the lab. From those studies, the researchers hope to create a \u0022biologically inspired\u0022 computer program to manage and control complex power grids in Mexico, Brazil, Nigeria and elsewhere.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe research is funded through a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation\u0027s Division of Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation. Georgia Tech researchers include ECE Professor Ronald G. Harley and Steve Potter, associate professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Managing power networks in the future may involve a little more brain power than it does today, if researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology succeed in a new project that involves literally tapping brain cells grown on networks of electrodes.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Managing power networks may involve more brain power."}],"uid":"27168","created_gmt":"2008-10-17 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:15","author":"Rachel Ponder","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-10-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-10-16T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"57077":{"id":"57077","type":"image","title":"Tech Tower","body":null,"created":"1449175653","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:47:33","changed":"1475894501","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:41","alt":"Tech Tower","file":{"fid":"190540","name":"tdm51072.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tdm51072_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tdm51072_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":60499,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tdm51072_0.jpg?itok=HBiEXRPK"}}},"media_ids":["57077"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/news.mst.edu\/2008\/10\/this_is_your_grid_on_brains.html","title":"Missouri S\u0026T News Article - This is your grid on brains"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"8808","name":"Brain cells"},{"id":"8807","name":"Power networks"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=jn7\u0022\u003EContact Jackie Nemeth\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}